Spring Test Drive Meme!

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Welcome to the Current Test Drive for The Revival Project!

This game is a spin-off from the closed The Drift Fleet game. For more information about the game, including more details on the setting, please check out the FAQ here or the premise here.

A thread on the TDM will be required for all applications. Please view the FAQ for information about how this works. Any questions about the game please direct to the comment section of the FAQ as well.

If you are a Drift Fleet alumni bringing your character from the game, please label your character as 'DFAU' on your top level. Also, keep in mind you have complete flexibility on how your character comes here. They could be taken before endgame, after endgame, two years after, one year before, etc. It's up to you! If you want to completely restart your character, they're not considered DFAU anymore and won't need the label.

So go! Explore Agra 10! And, as always, HAVE FUN!

Thread ideas:

- Explore the city! There's a map here and a bit more description of some of the buildings here. Most of the buildings are run down and have clearly been abandoned for years; fortunately, the water treatment center appears to be working, but power is intermittent and unreliable. The hotel seems to be the most crowded, but you might want into what appears to be an abandoned storefront and find someone else scavenging or even sleeping.

- There are spaceships! That's right, there are currently several small spaceships grounded in the hangar. They appear to have power, but only one ship will let you enter. (For test drive purposes, the ship that will let you enter is up to you, so just pick whichever name appeals, and go for it!) The other ships won't open for you, but it might be worth poking around the one that will...

- Do you hear a storm? A giant, power-altering storm has been ravaging part of the planet for a month. It shows ghosts of people you know and those you don't. It drains you of any super-human abilities and tries its best to keep you from getting to its origin. Are you going to try anyways? Or are you going to chase the whispers of people from your past? More information can be found  here.

- Can you hear me now? Upon arrival, your character will have on their person a small, handheld communications device. Maybe they know exactly how to use a computer, smartphone, or tablet, and immediately blast out a text or video trying to figure out what's going on. Or maybe they're not so tech-savvy after all, and everyone is about to get a lovely shot right up your character's left nostril.

- Wildcard! You're welcome to use any previous test drive scenarios or previous game events as a basis for a thread/situation, or simply make up your own! Keep in mind that you're currently stranded on a planet with only basic necessities, but there is enough food and fresh water. Creature comforts, however, seem to be distinctly lacking...



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Comments

Re: B

[in_extremis]

[That looks like it could maybe be Quicksilver, which is such an interesting new data point that Tony actually sits up, communicator in both hands, wondering if this place looked so run down because these aliens weren't actually good at reconstructing anything, just pretending. Because that's not a very good Quicksilver.]

I didn't know we went to bed angry, sweetheart. Remind me, what debate were we in now...? [If it was fashion again, there was no way Tony was budging.]

[doubled_speed]

Sweetheart? The actual fuck‽

[Not something Stark should be calling him. Ever. And why would he ever want to be Pietro? His uncle is hella repressed.]

You have no clue who I am? Which means you’re either an alt-Tony like all the other people aren’t from home, or you’re younger. In which case my only advice is listen to fucking Captain America.

Anyway, ‘Mutant’ mean anything to you?

[in_extremis]

[Message received: no petnames. Mea culpa, very serious face.]


Hold on, future-kid-- yes, mutant, whatever, what?-- you know me well enough to be mad at me, fair, that tracks, but 'listen to fucking Captain America'? I guarantee you, you've got the wrong guy. Put the claws away.

[doubled_speed]

Well, at least I don’t have to explain what mutants are.

[That got old. Fast. For even him.]

I’m Tommy, go by Speed in costume. Really don’t know what the fuck I can say without, like, timeline shit issues. Like...

[And the. It hits him. He can have FUN with this. And given he isn’t the greatest fan of Stark it is worth it.]

No, can’t tell you about President Rogers. And your Skynet initiative is totally off the table.

[in_extremis]

Speed! [It is a bad Quicksilver!] Wow, kiddo, I really didn't recognize you with the, you know, man's voice and everything. Good job, wasn't sure that would work out for you, nailing it.

[Deep breath. Now he's just saying things.]

Cool, sure, negging, really a hip, current trend you're working through there. We're all still absolutely doing that in the future. So is this just earth after a really accelerated apocalypse that you cockroached out of intact or...?

[doubled_speed]

[Careful there Stark. Speed is the Maximoff family speedster that blows stuff up without needing to touch it. And the narrowed eyes definitely speak to displeasure.]

I continue to remain unsurprised that Gramps has a serious ‘kill humanity’ kick. It’s all the racism and that shit. And seriously, not recognizing a guy like me?

But with you here I see the Agrii are going the Jersey Shore route. Taking us to full shitty realty TV.

[in_extremis]

Gonna be honest with you, I have no idea what those words mean in that order. It might be the...coma, or whatever. [Waving his hands in front of his face, completely caffeine deficient and its a rough morning. Or he could just not be in touch with his pop-culture, he's not exactly down with the kids.] Who's killed humanity? Is your idea of me from Jersey? [Horror.]

[doubled_speed]

No one has killed Humanity. Yet. Despite humanity definitely asking for it.

And people not from Jersey don’t get to dunk on Jersey. Not your job. Leave that to professionals. Which I doubt you’ve ever been in your entire life. As Stark or Iron Man.

[in_extremis]

On the record, I've never been across the bridge, wouldn't dream of it and you can't prove otherwise. However, I've earned a cool million exclusively for dunking, which I'd say takes me out of the amateur bracket. Semi-professional dunk-artisan, at least.

[doubled_speed]

Just because people pay you money because they hate themselves and other people who are different from them doesn’t mean you made money on dunking, Metal-Lad. Get over yourself. And this isn’t some romantic getaway. We’re here to do work.

[Fuck, why couldn’t they have a USEFUL time period of Stark?]

You’re so smart, go figure out how to stop the storm.

[in_extremis]

Hating themselves and people who are different is a lot of...like, there's not much left... [He's trailing off, because he's not really sure what this argument is about and he's not following the logic. It feels so much like coming out of a deep bender blackout and confronting the mess that stranger made. Bad, personal, but alien.] I'm missing some crucial information here, the big brain doesn't work without some junk in it. For starters: why?

[doubled_speed]

Because they brought us here for that? Because we get to go home when it's done. Because the storm is like a fucking suppression collar and that should NOT exist?

[Being powerless had been brutal.]

[in_extremis]

Do you always do everything you're told?

[doubled_speed]

[Ah-hah!]

Clearly you don’t know me, Stark. Because you wouldn’t ask that question. But I’m responsible for my team and getting them home.

[in_extremis]

I only know what you've told me, Speedo. The last time we met, you were a prepubescent punk with all of this attitude, but the good sense to walk away when a couple of old dudes (fucking Captain America, I believe you know him as) tried to tell you how to behave. So, how did you put it? Alt-Tony? Like a multiverse thing, huh? Is there a lot of people here I shouldn't assume I know?

[doubled_speed]

Don't assume to know anyone but the Young Avengers, even if you recognize them. And fuck you, I was sixteen.

[Damn asshole, don't act like he wasn't capable of taking care of himself back then.]

And frankly, I'm already certain, given you didn't get what I said about Cap, you're not that far past that whole Skrull v. Kree battle for Hulkling. Which means you don't know much about me at all. Who I am and what I'm capable of, not really.

But you do know about M-Day. First rule of this planet? Never talk to Wanda about M-Day. Ever.

[in_extremis]

[Hands up, apologizing again-- how was Tony supposed to tell how old you were? You look sixteen now.]

Wouldn't dream of it. It must be nice, to have her here. [Unless it isn't, and Speed is just pretending he drank the Koolaid. Still hard to get a read.]

[doubled_speed]

[Wow, old people are this stupid. Clearly.]

Family is family, Stark. That means a lot to a Maximoff. Even one soul removed.

[in_extremis]

[Jesus, this one is slippery. Fine, a new tactic:] I mean, you were always really dependent on her. It's good that she's keeping you focused on what's important, you know, helping these aliens that...took you. That makes sense, that sounds like your mom.

[doubled_speed]

[Dependent? Tommy's definitely intrigued.]

You hate admitting that you don't know anything, don't you? You don't want to admit that you're not from as far forward in time as I'm assuming. You just enjoying twisting and turning between things, trying to puzzle out answers you don't have a right to? Because if you knew who I was, Stark, you would never say I was 'always' dependent on a woman I've met once.

[in_extremis]

Listen, and you seem to think you know me better than I do, yet, so give this the gravity it deserves, okay, this is my real profession: that ego of yours is out of control. You know what answers I think I have a right to? What the fuck I'm doing here, what the two of us have in common to have brought us here, and what reason I should have to believe anything I've heard yet. Have you had your dick in your hand like this the whole time you've been here?

[doubled_speed]

There are rules, man. About time and all that shit. You don't play with time! So yeah, there are some things I don't want to say, and you're being difficult.

[He sighs and rolls his eyes. Tony STARK saying his ego is horrid is pathetic. But the answers there are ones he can accept.]

You're here to be a big damn hero. Which means saving these Agrii and teaching them how to people. What we have in common is that we're heroes, they're aware of us, and they think we can help. And fuck you. I've done a LOT. I've TRIED. I went into that damn storm and broke my fucking ankle. You know Quicksilver. You know how MUCH that means to a speedster. I've tried everything I can and I'm NOT smart and I'm NOT a tech head or any of that shit. WHich is why we need people like you.

[in_extremis]

[Difficult? That's more delicate than Tony is used to. Almost like something his dad would say in public.]

I'm not trying to grind your gears, kid. [Then again, that was more informative that almost anything else Speed had said, and it can't have been easy to say most of it...Tony wasn't about to throw out a useful tool.] But a lot of bad people have been under the impression that I can help them, too. You've made a big sacrifice for these guys, I can see that, but I haven't met them, I don't get why this is so important to you right now. Don't get it twisted: I'm not saying no one should help them, I'm not saying doing what they ask just to get home is unreasonable, I'm just trying to get to the foundations here before the building comes down.

[doubled_speed]

[Doesn't get why this is so important? He's a Maximoff speedster with his witch sibling in a position to get hurt! To suffer! Tommy glowers.]

I don't CARE about whether you think it's unreasonable or not. My brother and my best friend are stuck here. My Aunt is stuck here. Wanda has been separated from her Vision. I want to help them so everyone can go the fuck home. Which matters. It beyond matters. Their lives are worth it!

[in_extremis]

[Manipulative, egotistical, bad listener-- honestly, a pillar of society, absolutely nothing to judge here.]

Do you think they're going to die here?